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Northland Aluminum Products (Nordic Ware) and sister company Maid of Scandinavia

Northland Aluminum Products (Nordic Ware) and sister company Maid of Scandinavia, in St. Louis Park, ca. 1960. Used with the permission of Nordic Ware.

David Dalquist

H. David Dalquist, ca. 1955, at a first Chicago Housewares Show—the first in which Nordic Ware participated. It took Dalquist nine years to earn his fledgling company a spot at the large show. Used with the permission of Nordic Ware.

Fluted cake pan

Fluted cake pan, ca. 1900. A forerunner of Dalquist’s Bundt pans.

Color image of a cardboard container for the Nordic Ware Bundt jumbo fluted tube pan made of formed aluminum, ca. 1950–1970. Used by Susan Roth in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.

Bundt pan box and instructions sheet

Cardboard container for the Nordic Ware Bundt jumbo fluted tube pan made of formed aluminum, ca. 1950–1970. Used by Susan Roth in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.

Bundt cake pan, upside down

Bundt cake pan, upside down, May 11, 2005. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user David Benbennick.

Bundt cake pan

Bundt cake pan, May 11, 2005. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user David Benbennick.

Bundt Pan

Many Americans can recognize a Bundt pan or have one at home. But few know that this iconic cake pan, created by H. David Dalquist, founder of the Nordic Ware Company, is rooted in Minnesota’s Jewish immigrant history. The design for the ring-shaped mold came from a pan called the Gugelhupf, which was brought to the United States by Jewish immigrants from Europe.

Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway

The Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway (DW&P) was a Minnesota railroad that operated between International Falls and Duluth. It connected to the Canadian National at International Falls and to the Northern Pacific at Duluth. As a subsidiary of the Canadian National for almost all of the twentieth century, it moved freight along an artery between the Canadian West and the American Midwest through Minnesota.